'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses

Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.

Perplexity has opened its Personal Computer feature to all Mac users through a new desktop app, bringing local AI agent capabilities beyond its previous Max subscriber waitlist. The tool extends Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer product onto users’ own devices, giving AI agents access to local files, native Mac applications, over 400 connectors, and the web to […]

Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic workflows.  The post The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory appeared first on Towards Data Science.

I left Google ten days ago to found my own company. It's been quite a journey figuring out how things work outside of the mothership, and I'm genuinely excited to share what I've learned from both sides of the house...

AI success comes from redesigning processes from scratch rather than automating old habits.

Also in today’s newsletter: a new company seeks to tackle the power constraints on European data centre growth

Writing code has always been the most time- and resource-intensive task in software development. AI is changing that, and faster than most engineering organizations are prepared for. Tools like Claude Code and Cursor are already handling significant parts of code construction, freeing developers to spend more time on requirements, architecture, and design. But that shift creates a new challenge nobody is talking about enough. As AI takes on the heavy lifting, the skills that matter most are moving upstream: how to provide the right context for a prompt, how to evaluate what the model produces, and how to understand a problem deeply enough that you can’t be fooled by a confident but wrong answer. This piece explores those three skills and why developers who master them will have a significant edge over those who don’t. Beyond coding: Mastering the art of the prompt Software translation tools such as compilers and assemblers map a high-level description of code to a lower-level represent

Oracle plans to issue security patches for its ERP, database, and other software on a monthly cycle, rather than quarterly, to respond to the increased pace of AI-enabled software vulnerability discovery. Other software vendors, notably Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe, already release patches on a monthly beat, always on the second Tuesday of each month. Oracle, though, is taking an off-beat approach: It will release the first of its monthly Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs) on May 28, the fourth Thursday, and after that, it will release its patches on the third Tuesday of each month — a week after the other vendors — with the next batches arriving on June 16, July 21, and August 18, it said earlier this week. The new CSPUs “provide targeted fixes for critical vulnerabilities in a smaller, more focused format, allowing customers to address high-priority issues without waiting for the next quarterly release,” Oracle said. It will issue a cumulative Critical Patch Update each quarter, so